Prepare your tweeters for this one. It’s about high frequencies. I searched for sounds over 10’000 Hertz. It turned out to get quite noisey. So, maybe first clean your ears for crystal-clear sound. Better now?

Music for dance. All the music in this mix was written for dance pieces. The LP Connected was composed for the dance by Chunky Move. Gabriel Salomon’s music was produced for The Sensationalists by 605 Collective and Theater Replacement. Mads Emil Nielson made the 2 tracks on this 7inch for „Med Hånden På Hjertet“, a dance performance by Aaben Dans. Sigur Ros has written Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do for Merce Cunningham’s dance piece „Split Sides“. The song’s final part Di Do features cut-up samples of the choreographer’s voice. Up to here there is more recent music (2004-2018). Charles Cohen’s Water was produced 1976 for Group Motion Dance Theater. The last track of this mix was conceived for dance training and exercices and is taken from the 1974 LP Creative-Music by the two french percussionists.

All the tracks in this mix where recorded in churches. Using the church organs, but also electronics, piano and the church bells. The first track is a recording from 1965 showing the results of Charlemagne Palestine playing the 26-bell carillon at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City every day since he was 15 years old until he left to study in 1970. Michael Bonaventura’s piece is recorded at All Saint Church, Blackheath, London. Tim Hecker recorded the album Ravedeath, 1972 at Fríkirkjan Church in Reykjavik. Dustin O’Halloran recorded Vorleben on (what he states) „the most beautiful piano i have ever played“ with the amazing acoustics of the Grunewald Church in Berlin. Gegenschein by Aine O’Dwyer was recorded at the Franciscan Friary in Limerick City. And finaly, again Charlemagne Palestine (more than 50 years later than the Bells Studies) played the piano in the Washington Square Church in New York City.

The clarinet plays the mainrole in this mix. Marc Lardon made the record Mörder in der Pulvermühle only with bass-clarinet, (the very nice looking) contrabass-clarinet and some little electronics. Susanna Gartmayer made a beautiful record only with her bass clarinet. Also Roland P. Young only used a bass clarinet for the Row Land track. French clarinet quartet Watt are playing vibrating, hypnotic drones with continuus breathing technique.

„Space is the place“ where Sun Ra came from. He landed on earth in the early 1950ies and founded his Arkestra with often changing members. They released more than one hundred records, some on Sun Ra’s own label „Saturn“ (like the LP Continuation). The american Free-Jazz pioneer, important figure in Afrofuturism and founder of Comsmic Jazz died in 1993. Since then Marshal Allen is leading the Arkestra and they are still touring (not to be missed!)
Most of the tracks in this mix are by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. They appeared under various names like Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Ethnic Structural Cosmo Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Cosmo Love Adventure Arkestra, and so on… Marshal Allen and Kash Killion (track 6) are still playing in the Sun Ra Arkestra. Phil Cohran and Eugene Easton (track 7) used to play in the Arkestra in the early 1960ies. Also members from The Art Ensemble Of Chicago where playing with Sun Ra. The track by Austin Peralta from 2012 is an interpretation of Sun Ra’s track from the early 70ies. All City Records released a series of three 12″s with one original recording from The Sun Ra Arkestra and on the other side one interpretation of a recent producer.
So hold on, our rocket take off to planet venus. Zoom! Up in the air!

The first idea of this mix was to use only transparent vinyl. Listening to some of these records it went more in direction of transparent music. So, i used only clear vinyl records and searched for a transparent sound on these records. You can see through it, right?!

Started in 2012 and with more than 100 publication until now, Shelter Press is a french music and art book publishing platform run by Bartolomé Sanson and Félicia Atkinson. The first track in this Shelter Press Mix is taken from their first release. The last track is from one of the most recent LPs.http://shelter-press.org/https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/

9 years of Soultmonth, 108 mixes by Soult and 108 collages by Marsplastik until now.

And like every year, we made a summary of this years 12 pictures from Marsplastik, folded and stapled together to a colourful 12-page A5 fanzine. This year is the third time we putted an extra Zine together. A tracklist with all the 252 tracks from the last 3 years printed on very rare paper. Thanks so much for listening and watching!